Improvement in fire-kindlers



J. P. WAGNER. Fi're-Kindler.

' No. 197,188. Patented Nov. 13, 1877.

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UNrTEn. STATES PATENT ()FFICE.

JOH P. WAGNER, or CLEVELAND, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO JOHN HERIG & soNs.

IMPROVEMENT m FIRE-KINDLERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 197,188, datedNovember13, 1877 application filed April 14, 1877.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, J HN P. WAGNER, of Cleveland, in the county ofOuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented a certain new .andImprovedFire-Kindler; and I do hereby Figure 1 is a plan view of thefire-kindler.

Fig. 2 is a side view. Fig. 3 is an end view.

Like letters of reference refer to like parts 'in the several views.

The nature of this invention relates to a fire- I Said kindler is stripsof wood, arranged one above'the' other in a diagonal direction. The twoseries or- -sections of strips Of wood are connected to each other bytie strips or'binder's, to which the diagonal strips are gained in, andthereby bound together, substantially as hereinafter described.

The two sections or series of strips of wood referred to are representedat A and B, Fig. 1, each of which comprises five strips, but

which, however, may be more orless, according to the size of-thekindlerrequired, The

. strips of one section are arranged diagonally in respect to the stripsof the other section,.as'

shown in the drawings. 1 The two sections are connected to each other byties or binders D, which are let into the edges of the strips A.

and B by having gains cut in them for the re- I ceptionof the ties,substantially as shown in the drawings.

In uniting the strips to each other by ties, as above described, nonails are used for uniting the several parts'of the kindler, as thecomposed of two series of ties hold the strips firmly to eachother andin their diagonal relation.

In placing one section of strips above the other, and uniting them, asherein described, the wood or strips are in thebest possible positionfor burning, by allowing a good and sufficient draft of air through thespaces between the strips, and which at the same time permits smalllumps of coal to falldown between, and thereby become more directly inconnection with the lower part of the kindler than if the coal allremained on the top.

One surface of the strips is to be covered with a coating of tar, rosin,or paratfine, or

with any other suitable combustible material or compound that willproduce an immediate ignition of the strips on being fired.

Fine shavings, chips, or sawdust may or not be sprinkledover thecombustible coating to make salient points for igniting the kindler.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

As a new article of manufacture, a fire-kindler consisting of a sectionof wood strips, A,

arranged parallel in relation to each other, and a section of strips ofwood, B, arranged parallel in relation to each other, and diagonally intheir relation to and in combination with the strips A, to which theyare united JOHN r. WAGNER.

Witnesses:

W. H. BURRIDGE, J. H; BURRIDGE.

